LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
AI is Eating the Entry-level Lunch For years, partners have whispered about how many juniors they actually need if a machine can read 10,000 documents in an hour. This week, MinterEllison in Australia stopped whispering and started acting. The firm has effectively put the Australian legal market on notice, slashing its 2025-26 graduate intake by
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The firm that pays its partners $12 million a year just can’t stop losing them. Here’s why that paradox may be the most important story in Big Law right now.
Wachtell Lipton broke every profitability record in Am Law 100 history in 2026 — and watched nine partners walk out the door to rivals offering something the numbers alone couldn’t match. What’s really driving the exodus from Wall Street’s most envied firm, whether the lockstep model can survive the age of the $80 million guarantee, and what it all means for the future of elite legal practice: it’s all inside.
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Legal AI Just Went All Hollywood The legal technology sector has seen plenty of bold claims. But very few startups have had the audacity — or the funding — to enlist a People magazine Sexiest Man Alive to sell AI software to managing partners. Swedish legal AI company Legora is doing exactly that. “We felt
The acquisition adds a critical new layer to Legora’s platform: real-time visibility into regulatory change. Regulation is growing more complex, more global, and more consequential every year and the tools available to legal and compliance teams to track it have failed to keep pace. Graceview was built to replace the patchwork of fragmented, noisy sources
Article source: Applewhite Law Firm PLLC An accident involving an 18-wheeler is not a larger version of a standard car crash. It is a categorically different event in its physical consequences, its legal complexity, and the institutional response that occurs on the other side the moment the accident is reported. A driver who rear-ends another
Article source: Fowkles Law Firm PLLC The criminal process is often described in terms of its final stages — the trial, the verdict, the sentence. Those stages get the most attention because they are the most visible and the most dramatic. But the decisions that determine the outcome of a criminal case are typically made
In an industry where “integration” is often a buzzword for a clunky API, Smokeball and Thomson Reuters have announced a partnership that actually moves the needle. By embedding TR’s CoCounsel Legal AI directly into Smokeball’s practice management ecosystem, the two giants are attempting to bridge the historic chasm between the business of law and the
Article source: Dixon Injury Law The courtroom phase of a personal injury case — if it reaches one — is where the outcome is formally declared. But the case is won or lost long before anyone walks into a courtroom. The evidence that matters, the medical record that supports the damages claim, and the credibility
Article source: Lowe Trial Lawyers Settlement offers in personal injury cases are not generosity. They are risk calculations. The insurer’s claims team is estimating the probability that the case will go to trial, the likely verdict range if it does, and the cost of the litigation required to get there. Every variable in that calculation
Docusign, the world’s most trusted Intelligent Agreement Management (IAM) company, and Harvey, the leading AI platform for legal and professional services, today announced a strategic partnership that connects Harvey’s legal reasoning platform with Docusign’s IAM contract AI platform, enabling legal teams to move from business insights to action across the full agreement lifecycle. Together, the
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